Chicago police investigate apartment slaying

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Chicago police were investigating the killing of a Gold Coast man who was found shot in his high-rise apartment

Kent Projansky, 40, was found about 7 p.m. Saturday after neighbors heard several gunshots from his 30th-floor apartment in the Elm Street Plaza building in the 1100 block of North Dearborn Street, said Chicago police spokeswoman Laura Kubiak.

Projansky died of multiple gunshot wounds, a spokesman for the Cook County medical examiner's office said.

He was found lying on the floor of his apartment, and there were no signs of forced entry, Kubiak said.

The building has door staff assigned to the front area 24 hours a day, a building spokeswoman said.

Projansky, who helped run a remodeling company, was remembered by relatives Sunday as a caring person who often took homeless people to Bulls games for the holidays, said Dawn Projansky-Lavin, a cousin.

Projansky-Lavin said he had a warm personality and could strike up a conversation with anyone.

"My parents saw him at the Bulls game on Monday and asked him who he came with, and he said, 'I like to bring homeless people to the games,' " Projansky-Lavin said. "It was his thing to do. He was a warm type of guy."

Projansky-Lavin said that while her cousin was muscular and tall, he was gentle by nature.

"He was warm and cuddly and bearlike, but he was a street-smart guy," she said.